iPad not eligible for the requested build in 4.3 iOS update?

Thank you so much! 🙂

i dont have the apple bit, help? do i need to add it?

No, mine was not jailbroken and I'm getting the same message.

thank you. This worked for me too, I was upgrading from 4.3 to 5.0

Thanks - the update to the /etc/hosts file on my Mac worked for me to. I am now able to upgrade from 4.3.3 to 5.0! Really appreciate the help in this forum. I hunted around online today for 3 hours looking for this fix and found a lot of wrong turns. Thanks again!

Try updating iTunes as most update require the latest version which is currently 10.5

this definitely worked on me. I was wondering why it works on every other computer for me to update the ipad and iphone, just not on the macbook I use. The problem turned out to be the Tiny Umbrella. It did start to cause trouble after I tried to backup the 4.3.3. Thanks very much

I am not aware of ever having used TinyUmbrella, an my iPad 1 is not and has never been JB'd.

This worked like a charm:

Just do the following commands in terminal:

Type sudo su

Press enter

Then enter your password and hit enter

Type vi /etc/hosts

Move your cursor with the down arrow to the line that has gs.apple.com without a # at the beginning of the line.

Move cursor to the beginning of that line.

Type i# then press the esc key. (this makes the cursor jump down several lines)

Type :wq

Press enter

Type exit

Press enter

Now you can quit out of the terminal application.

But one thing I DO NOT understand is that the iPad alledgedly only restores the basic things, and not content like music, film and stuff. But it still requires space on the HD for a restore-copy of all content on the iPad?

Music, films, tv shows, downloaded apps and photos synced from your computer are not included in the iPad backup - they should already be on your computer and available to iTunes so there is no need to include them in actual backup

did I have a choice re. what to backup?

I removed ALL of my music from the iPad to equal the space I could make on my mac, but it was still somehow backed up, as the needed space for backup rose from the sulting 12 GB after removing music to 21 GB, which alluded that iTunes had in fact not deleted music on the iPad. Many annoying things about the update - but its done now and Im free to hate it or love it, but it doesn't go away, and now at least I csn update my apps without having to remove and reinstall iOS needy apps prior to and after update of all apps. VERY annoying, Apple!

wingiv,

This worked for me updating from 5.01 to 5.1. Had the problem on both my iPhone and iPad. I installed Tiny Umbrella to aide in fixing a hardware issue with my iPhone, not for jailbreaking, a while back. Thanks!

I have tried all of that and it still doesn't work